IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 22/01/2013

Latinos take on more prominent role in Obama inauguration

Presidential Inaugural Committee Co-Chair Eva Longoria gestures as she participates in the opening ceremony for the National Day of Service as part of the 57th Presidential Inaugural festivities, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Latinos are taking a more prominent role in President Barack Obama's second inauguration, from the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice swearing in the vice president to a star-studded celebration of Latino culture. Read More ...

Authorities ID 5 victims in New Mexico home shooting

Teen gunman suspected of killing five in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A 15-year-old boy remained in custody Sunday night as detectives tried to piece together what led to the shooting of his parents and three of their children who were found dead in a New Mexico home. Read More ...

Harbaugh brothers to square off in Super Bowl

Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh reacts during the second half of the NFL football AFC Championship football game against the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Mass., Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

It will be the pinnacle for America's first coaching family as the Harbaugh brothers will square off in New Orleans for the Lombardi Trophy. Read More ...

#HashOut on location: What should Obama talk about in his inaugural address?

President Barack Obama is officially sworn-in by Chief Justice John Roberts in the Blue Room of the White House during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

From post-brunching DC natives to travelers disembarking from Union Station to political enthusiasts visiting the finish line of the inaugural parade, we found a wide range of Americans willing to share what they hope President Barack Obama says during his second inaugural address. Several people commented on recent tragedies, both natural and man-made, and the [...] Read More ...

Alleged mastermind of Te'o hoax may tell his story

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2012, file photo, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o takes the field during senior day before an NCAA college football game against Wake Forest in South Bend, Ind. The wrenching story of Te'o's girlfriend dying of leukemia _ a loss he said inspired him to play his best all the way to the BCS championship _ was dismissed by the school Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, as a hoax perpetrated against the linebacker. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

The person cast as the mastermind of the hoax involving Notre Dame's Manti Te'o may tell his side of the story, a family member said Sunday. Read More ...

Indicted Megaupload founder opens new sharing site Indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom launched a new file-sharing website that promises users greater privacy and defies the U.S. prosecutors who accuse him of facilitating massive online piracy. Read More ...

Tell us the TRUTH! What are your hopes, fears for next four years?

The West Front of the U.S. Capitol is pictured on the eve of the second inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington

As President Barack Obama begins his second term, Yahoo News and NowThis News want to hear from you. How do you feel about the state of our nation, politics, democracy, Washington, and the world? Read More ...

Diplomat named Algeria attack leader and captor, one-eyed "Jack"

Death toll continues rise from deadly attack in Algeria

Veteran Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler is one of few westerners to have been taken captive by Islamist militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, and to have lived to tell the tale. Read More ...

Obama first two-term president to take oath of office four times

U.S. President Barack Obama is sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington,

Barack Obama was officially sworn in for a second term on Sunday, taking the oath of office in a short ceremony. Read More ...

Inauguration 2013: Readers’ hopes for the next four years

Robert Craft writes: "In the next four years, what I want to see most is an education reform. My children mean everything to me. I work with them every day that I have with them to teach them. I don't want to depend on public education to educate them. It can't and for that matter it shouldn't be its sole responsibility. Public education should aid the learning of our children. We should not lean on it to do all of the work. We should be working in tandem to create future generations that can change our world. Until this fairy tale of mine that means so much to me comes to fruition all I can do is recognize that we have a problem. Educational reform is needed." Read More ...

SWAT standoff in Ga. uncovers dismembered body

This December 2012 handout photo provided by the Effingham County Sheriff's Office shows Chad Moretz. A SWAT team sniper shot 34-year-old Moretz on Jan. 11, 2013, ending a four-hour standoff when Moretz emerged from his Effingham County home armed with an assault rifle. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Effingham County Sheriff's Office)

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Police went to Chad Moretz's home to ask him about a friend who had gone missing and quickly found themselves in a tense standoff when a relative answered the door and whispered: "He's got a rifle. He's going to kill y'all." Read More ...

Library prank sends Armstrong books to fiction section

A spectator with the book of Astana rider Lance Armstrong of the U.S. in his arms awaits the start of the 13th stage of the 96th Tour de France cycling race between Vittel and Colmar

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A prank note in an Australian library declaring that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's books would be moved to the fiction section has gone viral on the Internet, with one commentator declaring: "Hell hath no fury like a librarian". "All Non-Fiction Lance Armstrong Books, including 'Lance Armstrong - Images of a Champion', 'The Lance Armstrong Performance Program and 'Lance Armstrong: World's Greatest Champion,' will soon be moved to the fiction section," read the sign posted at Sydney's Manly Library on Saturday. ... Read More ...

Minister tells Newtown: MLK's words 'needed now'

A young woman wears a green and white bow, the colors of Sandy Hook Elementary School, in her hair with the initials of the victims names from the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting during an interfaith a sermon at Newtown Congregational Church in Newtown, Conn., Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. The Rev. James A. Forbes, Jr., who led one of the country’s most prominent liberal Protestant churches, is speaking at the church to honor the victims of last month’s school shooting and the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A former leader of one of the country's most prominent liberal Protestant churches told residents on Sunday, weeks after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words "are needed now more than ever before." Read More ...

Journalist Barbara Walters hospitalized after fall at Washington party

File photo of television personality Barbara Walters arriving at the Time 100 Gala in New York

Veteran journalist Barbara Walters was admitted to a Washington. D.C., hospital over the weekend after she fell and cut her head at the British ambassador's residence, an ABC television spokesman said. Read More ...

Dreamliner probe widens after excess battery voltage ruled out

Fire trucks surround Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner that caught fire at Logan International Airport in Boston

U.S. safety investigators on Sunday ruled out excess voltage as the cause of a battery fire last month on a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jet operated by Japan Airlines Co (JAL) and said they were expanding the probe to look at the battery's charger and the jet's auxiliary power unit. Last week, governments across the world grounded the Dreamliner while Boeing halted deliveries after a problem with a lithium-ion battery on a second 787 plane, flown by All Nippon Airways Co (ANA), forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing in western Japan. ... Read More ...

Second Mass. chemist accused of evidence tampering

This undated photo provided by the Massachusetts Attorney General's office shows Sonja Farak. Farak a chemist at a state crime lab tampered with drug evidence, authorities said Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013 in Massachusetts, where another chemist at a different lab was accused last year of faking test results in a scandal that threw thousands of criminal cases into question. (AP Photo/Massachusetts Attorney General)

A chemist at a state crime lab tampered with drug evidence, authorities said Sunday in Massachusetts, where another chemist at a different lab was accused last year of faking test results in a scandal that threw thousands of criminal cases into question. Read More ...

French airstrikes jolt Islamists in Malian town

A French soldier waits for a French Puma transport helicopter to land on the soccer stadium to test the field in the center of Niono, some 400 kms (300 miles) North of the capital Bamako Sunday Jan. 20, 2013. French troops encircled a key Malian town on Friday, trying to stop radical Islamists from striking against communities closer to the capital and cutting off their supply line, a French official said. The move around Diabaly came as French and Malian authorities said that the city whose capture prompted the French military intervention in the first place was no longer in the hands of the extremists.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Backed by French air strikes, Malian forces appeared close to recapturing a key central town in Mali where bands of al-Qaida-linked fighters had holed up, France's defense minister said Sunday. Read More ...

China's metrosexual men revive luxury shopping

Man watches in front of window display outside a Gucci store in Hong Kong

China's fashion-forward men are snapping up Gucci and Burberry bags, driving a rebound in the luxury market months after a slow down in spending by the world's biggest luxury goods buyers spooked global investors. Read More ...

‘SNL’ skewers Lance Armstrong

FILE - In this July 19, 2009, file photo, Lance Armstrong crosses the finish line during the 15th stage of the Tour de France cycling race in Verbier, Switzerland. Armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France during a taped interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, reversing more than a decade of denial. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)

"Saturday Night Live" wasted no time in tackling the pair of scandals that transcended the sports world last week, using its cold-opening sketch to skewer both Lance Armstrong's doping confession and the hoax involving Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o and his fake dead girlfriend, Lennay Kekua. Armstrong, played by Jason Sudeikis, sat down for [...] Read More ...

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